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From: irf@kuling.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: A customable string-comparison package
Message-ID: <542@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 05:41:32 EST
Article-I.D.: kuling.542
Posted: Sat Oct 31 05:41:32 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 02:09:38 EST
References: <2428@enea.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <2428@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
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><Note that this is cross-posted. Please submit follow-ups to 
> comp.std.internat only>
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>Some months ago I asked for a new character concept where
>the result of string comparisons should depend on the 
>selected langauges. I stated that the old ASCII concept 
>one character <=> one collation value must go away. 
>  I have completed a string-comparison package, that performs
>much of what I asked for. (I still think that the OS and
>( the rest has been deleted ...)

If I understand correctly it seems to me you're trying to reinvent
the wheel. Isn't this what NLS (HP-UX Native Language System, now accepted
as standard by x/open) is doing plus a host of other nifty things like
automatically changing from the Anglo-Saxon 13 hour clock to the 24 hour
one, issuing error messages in your own native language instead of English,
taking care of collating sequences (e.g., treating 'll' and 'ch' in a special
way in Spanish) and so forth?


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